Bob Bingham is Professor of Physics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a Laboratory Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He has written over 500 scientific and technical papers and is active in space and astrophysics plasmas as well as laser plasma interactions and plasma accelerators. He is group leader in the area of fundamental physics, with interests in neutrino physics, accelerator physics, turbulence, etc.  He co-ordinates a theory programme on plasma accelerators and is building up a laboratory astrophysics programme that involves high power lasers.

He is a member of the HiPER team, the European high power laser fusion project.